1·The girls giggled at the joke.
女孩子们让这笑话逗得咯咯笑。
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2·He completely missed the joke.
这个笑话他一点也没听懂。
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3·Whoever thought up that joke?
究竟是谁想出那个笑话的？
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
4·The joke is too rude to repeat.
这个笑话太下流，不宜重复。
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5·She didn't get the joke.
她不明白那笑话的含义。
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1·He intended it as a joke.
他只想开个玩笑。
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2·Because he wants to play a joke.
因为他想开个玩笑。
3·Don't carry [push] the joke too far at others.
开人玩笑不要太过分。
—— 《新英汉大辞典》
4·"It was only a joke," he roared, while she comforted her boys, and Wendy hugged Nana.
“这只是个玩笑。”他咆哮说，而她安慰她的孩子们，温迪拥抱了娜娜。
5·The headmaster at my school decided to play an April Fools' joke on the students when I was in high school.
在我上高中的时候，我们学校的校长决定给学生们开一个愚人节玩笑。
1·We'll joke with them, and we'll laugh with them.
我们会跟他们开玩笑，然后一起笑。
2·"It is no joke, Mr. Sesemann," replied the lady seriously.
“这不是开玩笑，赛赛曼先生。”小姐严肃地回答。
3·The wolf thought he was in joke, and came one night to get a dainty morsel.
狼以为他是在开玩笑，一天晚上来取美味的食物。
4·We often keep a straight face or use an unsmiling expression when we're making a joke.
当我们开玩笑的时候，我们经常绷着脸或使用不笑的表情。
5·People should aware that climate change is no joke.
人们应该意识到环境变化并非开玩笑。
1·Her bad cooking has become the neighbourhood joke.
她糟糕的烹调技术成了邻居的笑料。
2·Britain's trains rank alongside its weather as a standing national joke, but that hasn't stopped people flocking to them over the past decade.
英国的铁路与天气一起并列属于标准的国家笑料，不过这并不影响过去的十年里人们拥入火车。
3·Jermaine went on to question why Michael is getting so much positive attention now, when before his death many saw him as a bit of a joke.
迈克·杰克逊生前被视为笑料，而现在却得到越来越多的积极关注。对于这一问题，杰梅因继续回答。
4·Meanwhile, the Apple store rejected a Chuck Norris app, a Chuck Norris joke generator, because they claimed it ridiculed a public figure.
与此同时，苹果商店拒绝了一个查克·诺理斯的游戏程序，“查克·诺理斯笑料发动机”因为他们宣称它嘲笑了一位公众人物。
5·Do not treat this serious matter as a joke.
不要把这件严肃的事情当作笑料。
1·She was convinced that Margaret had fixed on a person whose name she could not bear with composure to become a standing joke with Mrs. Jennings.
她知道玛格·丽特要说的是哪个人，她不能心安理得地容忍这个人的名字成为詹宁斯太太的永久笑柄。
2·It is a standing joke between us that because of those six months there is no good restaurant in Edinburgh I haven't cried in.
在这6个月里，爱丁堡没有哪家好餐馆我没在里面哭过，这后来成为了我们之间的一个笑柄。
3·When you are weird, you are a joke.
当你跟别人不一样，你就会成为笑柄。
4·My poor pronunciation and broken knowledge about grammar have become a great subject of joke in class.
我的破发音和对文法的残缺不全的知识，已成为班上的大笑柄。
5·By the time Carter's trip ended, he had become the punchline for many a Polish joke.
到卡特结束他的波兰之行时，他已经成为了许多波兰人的笑柄。
1·So when the Macedonians said they planned to put up a statue of Alexander in the centre of Skopje, many assumed it was a joke to rile the Greeks, who see him as central to their history and culture.
随后马其顿声称要在斯科普里中心建一座亚历山大大帝的铜像，起初很多人以为这仅是一个为了抨击希腊人的玩笑话，为了讽刺希腊总自诩为历史和文化中心。
2·Four years ago, a joke by Murray at a press conference - when he said he would be supporting "anyone but England" at the World Cup - turned sour, with the tabloid press having a field day.
四年前，穆雷在一次新闻发布会上的玩笑话——他说自己在世界杯“除了英格兰谁都支持”——变味了，小报对此进行了大篇幅的报道。
3·No matter how I phrased it in my head, it always sounded like a bad pun, a sad joke.
不管我在脑子里怎么打草稿，说出来都像是个糟糕玩笑话。
4·That August they released Blogger, which Williams named based on Peter Merholz's joke about the word.
同年八月，公司推出了Blogger，这个名字是威廉姆斯根据彼得·莫霍尔兹的玩笑话想出来的。
5·They will repeat Albert Einstein's remark, unaware that it was meant as a joke: "If the facts contradict the theory, then the facts are wrong, because the theory is true."
他们会重复阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦的评价，不知道那只是句玩笑话：“如果事实和理论冲突，那么事实必然是错的，因为理论是对的。”
1·Kate’s failure to get a ring on her finger became a national joke.
凯特手指上连个戒指都没带一度在全英成为笑谈。
2·There's an old joke that Web developers spend about 20% of their time writing code and the other 80% getting it to work the same in all browsers.
有一个关于Web开发人员的笑谈，Web开发人员用他们20%的时间写代码，然后用剩下的80%的时间让这些代码能够在所有浏览器中运转起来并获得相同的效果。
3·How many ancient and modern things, pay the joke!
古今多少事，就付笑谈中吧！
4·In a society that celebrates spending and credit, this behavior is usually looked upon as a joke rather than a serious problem.
在这个鼓励消费、推崇信贷的社会，这种行为通常被视为笑谈，而非某个严重的问题。
1·Don't be fooled by its pretty pattern and comical name - the harlequin ladybug is no joke.
可不要被小丑瓢虫漂亮的图案和喜剧化的名字蒙蔽了，它可不是闹着玩的。
2·In this house, that's no joke.
在我家里，这可不是闹着玩的。
3·It's no joke when water gets into the petrol tank.
水进到汽油箱里可不是闹着玩的事。
1·I decided to treat his remark as a joke.
我决定把他的话当作戏言。
—— 《牛津词典》